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Is Hamlet all about murder? Just because a story involves a lot of violence, doesn't mean the story is all about violence. Of course, D&D without a plot or story is a genocidal home invasion murder-robbery simulator. So just because there is a lot of violence does not mean there is a story...

Honestly, today that shirt is funny, but the very reason that it is funny is the reason why a lot of game stores struggle to stay in business. Go back a few years and a pre-stained shirt with "I just watched the Ironman movie and all I got was this lousy dorrito-stained shirt" would have been...

I would make it my mission to figure out how to decouple the D&D brand from social stigma. People are going out in full force to watch movies based on comic books. Iron Man is perfectly mainstream and acceptable. If somebody wants to be an annoying Ironman fanboy, its viewed as that person...

If you want to reduce the time at the table spent on an encounter because they are taking too much real time, then you can try this: When its a players turn, if their power and appropriate dice are not already selected *before* their turn starts, allowing them to act immediately, their turn...

I saw it mentioned various places that there was some art shown at the DDXP Darksun presentation, something about a picture of Balic and a sketch of Draj and something about moons IIRC. Have any of the pictures made it to the internets yet? Quite curious to see the direction they are going...

Spelljammer, except with actual water and actual boats and none of that space stuff. A nautical based campaign world sound interesting and I'd love to read about it. Solid and well done nautical rules that you could export would be useful for almost any campaign world. Heck you could even use...

I think tracking thirst and hunger in 4e would actually be very easy and mesh perfectly with the system. Players: we want to take an extended rest. GM: How much water do you have, and what was the last thing you ate?

Note, I didn't say that the amoral police state aspect of the setting was a bad thing. It was more of 'way way too much of a good thing can be a bit of a bad thing'. I was merely saying that moving the "amoral police state slider" from 11 out of 10 to 'only' 9 out of 10 would likely make it a...

The expanded setting was actually not too bad from the POV of actually running a game in practical terms. The city states in the original box were a little too much of draconian police states with absolute and total control over all life within their borders, right down to the water people...

Dark Sun warforged would actually be pretty cool IMO. Constructs of obsidian, stone, and bone plates affixed to a skeleton of living wood from beyond the mountains. Animated by powerful defiling dragon magic, and made sentient by the unfathomable psionic powers of the Sorcerer Kings. Obsidian...

Why would you go to war with someone who is a liability? I think that is a similar question. While I was never in a position to pick who I served with, I can tell you right now that I'd never have answer yes to the question: "should we get rid of so and so because they are of dubious...

One issue is that I've sat at enough tables where I quite honestly believe that some of the players attached self worth to their ability to roll a die. It has happened enough that I would not be surprised at all if it was not a decently sized demographic. When they roll the dice and the...

D&D is boring when encounters take too long. When *your* character does their turn, that really isn't especially interesting to anyone but yourself. As soon as the DM stops describing the encounter, as soon as you know what the monsters do, as soon as all the surprises are known, the encounter...

My take on this is would be that of the recent comic-book movies. These movies are doing well not because people in general have discovered super heros. These movies are doing well because movie studios have finally taken super heros and made movies based on them with non-immature plots. They...

I imagine this one ought to be easy. Would you apply a penalty to an attack roll made by a chained up fighter, or require a rather difficult skill check for a chained up player trying to climb a ladder? Why should a wizard get a free pass in a situation where any other character would easily...

They were mooks before they picked up their first level(s) in their first class. Starting as an arcane caster in Dark Sun made about as much sense as building a nuke in your garage. Everyone will turn you in if they catch the smallest hint of what your up to, and you need to use a bunch of...

I think doing a single campaign setting book and PHB per setting is a good idea. One of the problems Dark Sun had was too much specific information that spoiled the entire setting. I think Eberron was a very good setting in that after reading the material, you could sit down and take the world...

In regards to the whole defiling vs preserving thing... I think the 'best' answer is to simply say: "No. Roll a psionicst." I really don't think players should be able to be a wizard of either flavor. At least not to start. Restricting arcane magic to being something you gain access to at...

I think they needed to kill a few SKs for the setting to work. Or at least Kalak. The 'problem' with the setting was that the SKs and the Templar system was just too oppressive and omni-present. The idea that a band of players could be running around doing their own thing while being powerful...

But that would kill half the joke! Seeing how the smother part would be an action that would depend on their physique.